Prepared for the future
Business analysts engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to processes, products, services, software and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value.
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Business analytics has emerged in recent years as a powerful and required capability for companies across all industries. The quantity, quality and diversity of available data have never been greater. This has created new and significant opportunities for organizations to use data to improve their decisions with respect to both internal resources as well as external interactions with suppliers and customers.
As a business analytics major, you will gain the skills needed to implement and oversee data-driven business decisions — collecting, managing and describing datasets, making informed predictions from data, and making optimal decisions based on data.
You will learn how to analyze data and apply descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and diagnostic models to business, organizational, and socio-economic problems. Our program emphasizes the ability to formulate insightful questions using data, and to interpret analytical models to improve decision-making.
You will graduate from our program with strong technical and quantitative abilities and be well prepared to enter the growing field of business analytics, or to pursue graduate studies.
Courses include:
- Quantitative Business Analytics
- Business Statistics II
- Analytics for Business Intelligence
- Applied Matrix Algebra
- Operations Management
- Time Series Analysis
- Business Analytics & Information Systems
- Business Analytics Capstone
Let's Talk Numbers
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) the area of analyst will grow between 13%-20% depending on the specific occupation over the next 8 years. In particular, the job of management analysts are predicted to grow from 758 thousand to 861.4 thousand from 2014 to 2024.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE
Our program is designed to fit the needs of every student. Classes will be held in the early evenings and on weekends.
